The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
quote by Lafcadio Hearn
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Helps Me Helps You
Look at all the toys I got
Look at all the things I need
Look at all the toys I got
Look at all the mouths I feed
Have I got a wonderful deal for you
What belongs to me belongs to you
I understand what youre going through
I know the point to push you to
My policy helps me helps you
Generosity helps me helps you
Conspiracy helps me helps you
Put you trust in me Ill help you too
Look at all the things Ive done
Look at all the rights I wrong
The means will justify the end
For you to save and me to spend
Cos Ive got a great idea you see
What belongs to you belongs to me
I know just what you wanna do
I know how I can get there too
Hypocrisy helps me helps you
Democracy helps me helps you
Ideology helps me helps you
Put your trust in me Ill help you through
(hirst/moginie)
song performed by by Midnight Oil
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In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
quote by Morris Raphael Cohen
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
quote by Isaac Asimov
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O my dear
O my dear, listen my words
come with me openhand.
We all go on merrymaking
And to measure the lifspan
Exactly with us here
In this time of joy.
The people with us I like most
The society the culture the technolgy
with us I like most.
Further I emphasised
Its proper use and maintenance
That is suitable to our
Religion and philosophy
Art and literature
Geography and history.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
quote by Morris Raphael Cohen
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Since Yesterday
I am sleeping with the proverbial flying carpet of love,
And i am drinking the proverbial fire balls from heaven;
But life has come a very long way to me,
And i have been thinking of you since yesterday.
I am eating from the proverbial iron horse of fame,
And like two wave loaves of bread baked with salt;
But i am now like a forgotten sheaf from a field.
Love is just like that at times and,
I have to get this water away from my side;
And to reap the harvest with an ox and a donkey!
The odds have taken m eso long on this love and,
I want to keep this vision going all the time;
But like the owner and his son who required a test,
For i have been thinking of you since yesterday.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Its A Song Not A Poem:
Francois Song:
Alone in pain,
Everything's in vain,
Nothing even worth the fight,
Given up on life,
Sick of all the strife.
Sapped out all my might,
And then a strange warm feeling,
I never felt at the start,
When a guy called Frenchy,
Opened up my heart,
(pre-corous)
The story seems fake
But I tell ya he's a tank,
Hes a kind hearted guy,
Who would never let you cry.
Never let you fall in doubt,
A friend you can't live without..
(corous)
There's a guy I know,
Oh oh,
He's everything to me,
He helps me see,
The lighhhht!
So don't you go,
Oh no,
You have to stay at bay,
We're together in this fight!
I never ever knew,
Bout the love I found in you,
I don't think you understand,
The sinful people,
That destroy my steeple,
I don't think they know the pain,
It makes me go insane...
But you brought me back!
(corous)
There's a guy I know,
Oh oh,
He's everything to me,
He helps me see,
The lighhhht!
So don't you go,
Oh no,
You have to stay at bay,
We're together in this fight!
A stone cold planet,
With hearts made of granite,
You can't expect people to care,
Trust em if you dare.
But the message is quite clear...
Don't disappear...
poem by Jordan Moore
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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
quote by Morris Raphael Cohen
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In a world populated by people who believe that through more and more information, paradise is attainable, the computer scientist is king. But I maintain that all of this is a monumental and dangerous waste of human talent and energy. Imagine what might be accomplished if this talent and energy were turned to philosophy, to theology, to the arts, to imaginative literature or to education? Who knows what we could learn from such people — perhaps why there are wars, and hunger, and homelessness and mental illness and anger.
quote by Neil Postman
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
12th June 2010
I banked the table very hard twice because,
I was tired of the negative systems around me;
Oh, what kind of people are these? !
12th June 2010,
And of the dirty chains around my neck;
For these people do not understand the sense of life.
Why can't they understand me for what i am made of?
Why can't they understand me for who i am?
For i need my freedom to represent my status in this land.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
quote by Morris Raphael Cohen
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People Are People
We're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people
Have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you
What could I have done
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
People are people
So why should it be
You and I shouldnt get along
People are people
So why should it be
You should hate mePeople are people
So why should it be
You and I shouldnt get along
People are people
So why should it be
You should hate me
You're punching, kicking
And you're shouting at me
And I'm relying on your common decency
La, la. la, la. la
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fist
Can't understand what makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I shouldnt get along
People are people
So why should it be
You should hate mePeople are people
So why should it be
You and I shouldnt get along
People are people
So why should it be
You should hate me
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
song performed by by A Perfect Circle
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
quote by Morris Raphael Cohen
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
quote by Jacques Derrida
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Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
quote by Harvey Keitel
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There are no patterns that lasts a lifetime. Some people can't stand the floating boarders. They decide on one life philosophy and live thereafter. But I've decided not to decide. I don't know everything. I don't understand everything. Both my own and others reactions are often a mystery to me. I let it be that way, hoping that maybe, instead, I can learn to understand the pattern of no patterns.
quote by Lena Olin
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No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
quote by Jon Ronson
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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
quote by Marilyn Hacker
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